Last week, I wrote about backing up your Outlook Express Address Book. This week, let’s look at restoring Outlook Express Address Book — it’s a lot easier. First, start Outlook Express. Once OE has completely started, click on the Addresses icon. I will assume that we’re importing the Address Book into the Main Identity. If [...]
Restoring Your Outlook Express EMail Folders
Last week, I wrote about backing up your Outlook Express email folders. This week, let’s look at restoring the emails and email folders from our backup. Whether we have managed to mess up our email files, or whether we’re just reinstalled Windows, or even to migrate the files to our new computer, we can restore [...]
Outlook Express | Backing up Outlook Express Address Book
Backing up your Outlook Express Address Book is a lot easier than backing up the email folders, since you don’t have the hassle of figuring out where the Address Book is located. Outlook Express has a built-in feature for backing up your Address Book. First, start Outlook Express. Then, open the Address Book by clicking [...]
Outlook Express | Backing up Outlook Express Email Folders
Backing up your Outlook Express email folders is an important part of using OE as your email program. Microsoft won’t protect you on this one. If you don’t have a daily backup of your data files, including your email files, to another computer or an external hard drive, you need to be sure to make [...]
Compacting Outlook Express Email Folders
Subscriber Ed Pilarczyk wrote me to say: Terry, Long time subscriber…Great tips. Thanks! Problem: Just recently, when I exit Outlook Express, it started asking me if I want to compact the messages. I can not find anything about shutting this usless reminder off – been to tools, options, and everywhere else. Any thoughts? Thanks, Ed [...]
Compacting Email Folders
There is a little trick to the way POP3 email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that? All your email program does is to rewrite a few characters in the file in order to tell itself that [...]
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